Oregon Hill Linear Park

Richmond Times-Dispatch Archives
Published: July 23, 2008

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Oregon Hill Linear Park, located between Idlewood and Holly Streets in Oregon Hill. Paved walking paths, vistas of the James River and Downtown Richmond are its claims.

A portion of the Oregon Hill Linear Park, between Idlewood Avenue and Spring Street, is now the Samuel P. Parsons Park. Parsons, an 18th century Quaker and abolitionist, was the first superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary and the general superintendent of the James River and Kanawha Canal Co., also served as the subscription agent for the outspoken antislavery paper, Genius of Universal Emancipation.
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